One-color block print on linen. Garment pattern: Pilvi Jacket from Lotta Jansdotter’s book Everyday Style Fabric: Linen (brand unknown) from The Fabric Store Ink: Permaset Aqua I had a couple of yards of fuchsia linen leftover from a bias-cut dress I’d made for a wedding last month, a block from last year’s 52 Weeks of […]

I’m not one to shy away from labor-intensive processes – I mean, I regularly block print my own yardage, and then sew it into clothing – but I’d always thought that dyeing fabric (like knitting) would be more time-consuming than even I could handle. However, when Kristine Vejar’s book, The Modern Natural Dyer, came out,

  Etsy interviewed me about working in my teeny, tiny studio, and you can read all about it (and see tons more photos) on the Etsy Sellers blog. Huge thanks to Julie at Etsy for asking me to be a part of this series, and to Christopher Stark for the amazing photos. The full article

October One-color block print on a linen-cotton blend. Garment pattern: Merchant and Mills’ Heron Wrap Top (from the Merchant and Mills Workbook) Fabric: Robert Kaufman’s Essex Ink: Blick A friend posted a link to photos of Dries Van Noten’s Spring 2016 Collection, and I was floored by the gorgeous fabrics throughout the collection. A recurrent
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